Avlägsnat och återskapat : En studie om fasadhyvling och fasadrekonstruktion

Sammanfattning: The aim of this essay is to study the seemingly growing phenomenon in reconstructingfacades that have been removed and reworked by previous generations.With the establishment of modernism in Sweden during the beginning of the 20thcentury, the ideals for architecture changed. Politically, the idea was that the olderbuilding should be replaced in favor of a new modern building. This led to a large partof the older buildings from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20thcentury being reworked, the original facade was removed and replaced by a new oneaccording to the ideals of the modernist movement. Today, however, we see a seeminglygrowing phenomenon in reconstructing the facades that were removed duringmodernism. The study aims to find out why the facades were removed in the first placeand why they are being reconstructed today